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Congressional Dish

CD045: Stop the Shutdown

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Congress, Government, Politics, Corporations

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2013

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Senate edited the House's version of the short-term government funding bill, stripping out the language that would not-really defund Obamacare. Full details on the Senate's version, including some surprising good news, and a quick recap of the tiny bit of work the House accomplished this week. Links to Information in This Episode Intro and Exit Music: by (found on ) of the 2014 Continuing Resolution Senator Ted Cruz during a fake filibuster (VIDEO) What Senator Ted Cruz did What is the , the provision that would be killed by the Senate version? The bill that exempts the from fire safety regulations on the Delta Queen fire safety exemption Representatives Quoted in This Episode

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0:00.0

And the I am so damn tired of being like to.

0:15.0

I am so damn tired of being like to.

0:20.0

I don't think I can't deny it anymore.

0:27.0

You can't stick to your story if you think it flies

0:40.0

But I'm not going to buy it anymore.

0:45.0

Hey there, friends, family, loyal congressional dish listeners and new congressional dish listeners.

0:50.0

Welcome to the 45th episode of Congressional Dish. I am your host

0:53.6

Kermit the frog. Just kidding. I'm your host Jennifer Brynay and I'm not

0:58.0

feeling terribly well today so unfortunately you're going to have to listen to

1:00.9

my voice as it sounds like this. But luckily

1:04.5

for you this isn't going to be a very long episode because this wasn't a very

1:09.0

long week in Congress. For those of you who are new to this show, I read all the bills that pass

1:14.2

the House of Representatives and let you know what's in them. And this week the House did

1:17.8

very, very little. They didn't show up to work until Wednesday. And I'm recording this on Friday morning.

1:24.0

And the thing is that they weren't even supposed

1:26.2

to be working this week, strangely enough,

1:28.6

even though they took five weeks off in August,

1:30.5

they were supposed to have a vacation week this this week but because they

1:34.4

have not funded the government which is their most basic job and they have to do so by

1:38.2

Monday they did come into work but they didn't do much work. So we're only going to talk about one

1:44.2

bill that passed the house this week and it wasn't that big of a bill. And I'm

1:47.8

actually kind of disappointed because I had a whole second half of this show

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